Paleo Challengers Week 2!
January 30, 2010 by kelli
Filed under Workout of the Day
Hey guys!
Good results so far for the first week of the Paleo Challenge! Team “COOK” (Has no official name yet) is taking the LEAD this week with an average of 85 points!! Good job keep it up guys!!
We are so proud of the Team “Sugarless Sugars” that is taking the initiative to go out to dinner and eat Paleo together! That rocks! Accountability and Comradery is what is going to create individual success and win the prizes!
Please Don’t forget to make a TEAM NAME for your team and post it in the gym on the poster board by this Monday!
Please Don’t forget to get your PRE picture made with one of the coaches by Monday!
POST POINTS ON MONDAY’s!
Keep up the hard work guys, yall rock!
-Coach Kelli
For all the Sweet Potato loving Paleos, try some Coconut Oil spread on the potato instead of butter. I just tried some from Natures Way EfaGold Coconut Oil. Picked it up at Whole Foods in the supplements. Fried my eggs in it as well this morning. Tonight’s meal #6 was Marinated Grass Fed Ribeye, Sweet Potato w/coconut oil, garnished with a handful of Blueberries. Try it, the oil on the potato is amazing.
so we can eat sweet potato’s on Paleo?
Chris, some sources on the internet will say no to the sweet potato, but others will say it’s fine (more current sources). I think (as well as others) they are good post-workout because the carbs in a sweet potato will fill muscle glycogen stores first (due to low fructose content). this is a good thing because it won’t give you as much of an insulin spike, as a load of fruit. High insulin = no good (for leaning out). Main thing is to just take note of when you eat it (in a food journal that you should be keeping) and then see how you look, feel, perform, etc…If you feel like crap a couple of hours later (hungry and tired), don’t eat it.
Sweet potato fries are awesome!! So is grassfed anything!
I use the Sweet Potato post WOD only for recovery due to the load of nutrients and glycogen restoration. I’m a hard gainer btw.
BTW again, as a hard gainer, I need the Insulin spike during my recovery meal to utilize energy and nutrient restoration by feeding the cells, after all this is the basic job of Insulin and hence Insulin levels can and should be controlled. At all other times Insulin levels must be kept low and stable so as not to overly feed fat cells. Post WOD for my body type is a free ticket to spike my Insulin by consuming high glycemic carbs chased with a protein source as this is the critical time when your body is most receptive to absorb nutrients and protein. So for maintenance fueling I keep Insulin levels low, for the post WOD critical recovery window I spike it.